You’re right, my bad. The majority of profit, not revenue, is from the credits.

FFS, you are textbook smart guy who knows jack shit.

Don’t raise the ire of the Stans, they will eat you alive.

If that is true, then what is the point of going on with life?

Again, our worldviews are really not that different, but the difference seems to be that you, for whatever reason, think that you as an individual have no real control over their life. I, on the other hand, disagree with that view. Even though the world seems to conspire to limit choices, the final decision is always…

How wretched is your life as the victim of everything, sir?

I totally agree with you. I never have thought that big oil is anything but a soulless corporate greed monster that exacerbated the whole climate change debate with intentionally misleading reports and pseudoscience.

If the world is relying on people like you, by god, it is fully and completely fucked. As Dolly Parton said, get off the cross, dear, somebody needs the wood. The public was not an innocent victim. Never was.

So, you are telling me that had the public actually made an effort to use less oil, less plastic, and otherwise buy less product from big oil that big oil would have still polluted as much as it has, and kept producing a product that was decreasing in demand?

I didn’t take his reply as being an apologist for big oil as much as holding everyone who has consumed said oil and petroleum products for the last 30 years as being complicit as well. You can point blame all you want, but the whole thing about any business transaction is that without a buyer for the end product,…

I know. And agree. I have a friend who went to work for them, and it was really eye-opening to understand how differently they do their way versus how most other carriers do.

From your friendly history professor-like grump: Look at 2008, when gas spiked.

So true, the hubris of what Welch begat.

Funny you compared Southwest to a bus. That is exactly who Herb Kelleher was targeting as competition, not the other airlines. He specifically wanted Southwest to compete against taking the bus by being almost as cheap, but a hell of a lot faster and with a slightly better clientele.

5th Gear: The Stock Market Continues To Make No Sense

Dear heavens, I hope I am not mansplaining, but really, this is just a simple dynamic that happens regardless of gender. Were it that a utopia existed where people of any and all genders (or none) could work together, empowering each other to ensure that everyone works to their highest potential.

Well, I wish we were all on the same page. But we aren’t even on the same chapter when it comes to applying consequences.

I am going to give you a bit of grief, so forgive me in advance.

You are not totally off, save one thing: a panoramic roof is not the new convertible. Obviously, you have never driven a true convertible, as the difference between open sky and a plate of glass is huge.

The fact that mid-sized SUV sales are so high that bringing back a 20 year old product is even a consideration shows how utterly messed up the US market really is. We are entering a brave new world where everything is either a pickup or SUV, or is a specialty that costs so much that all you can do is to hope to buy it…